You Mean You Only Need One of These Things?

     Way, way back, many years ago (I think we were still using quill pens to record our patterns), I was a crocherer. I made lots and lots of afgans (ripple, granny-square, you name it), baby blankets, scarves, even crib toys; everyone got an crocheted gift for Christmas or their birthday.

      I don't want to brag, but I may have been responsible for the growing number of joggers and/or runners in our town. (Sample conversation: "Do you think we can outrun her? You know that crocheted stuff is pretty light.") Just kidding, I loved the crochet years. I even remember carrying my precious son home from the hospital in a crocheted baby blanket. (I still have it, somewhere. I'll probably give it to him as a gift someday)
     However, over the years, I gave up the crochet hooks to move forward with other things like soccer mom assignments and, heaven help us, field trip duty. Sometimes I missed craft work, so I tried pottery (Mom, isn't it supposed to be round?) and embroidery (damn, those holes are tiny).
     Then about ten years ago, my boss (a woman) introduced me to knitting. I was sold. There was scarves, There were more scarves. There were even more.....well you get the picture. Again, I don't want to brag, I don't have any pictures of those really early scarves, however there are some very warm homeless people in our town. (They asked for donations; what was I to do?)

Here's a picture of a pretty early scarf

      This finally lead to the golden years. I became an accomplished knitter. Once scarves became an everyday (read: boring) thing, I fell down into a hole named SOCKS! I will have to expand on sock knitting at a  later date. (Too many stories, too may socks) I have knitted just about anything that I wanted to knit. I have even done some test knitting for knitting designers (again, stories to follow), but I decided that I wanted to go back and learn how to crochet again (you thought I'd forgotten my subject, didn't you?). And this time I wanted to learn it properly.

     When I learned to crochet, I learned from a right-handed person to didn't know how to teach left-handed one (me). So I learned "the wrong way."  So, last February, I took a class at Stitches West call How to Learn to Crochet Left Handed. Yay! 

Here is my second attempt at a crochet attempt at a project. Great book.

I haven't given up knitting, but I have made a promise to myself that every five (or so) projects will be a (properly done, or course) crocheted item.